You’ve heard there are fewer women in STEM fields, or that fewer women lead technical companies. Well, the ones that do are raising significant capital to pursue their passions. I asked the analysts at Pitchbook to help me take a data-driven look at the landscape around female founders. They may be on the venture frontier,  Continue Reading »

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Abhas brings his deep and broad experience to MATTER, where he will discuss his digital health investment thesis: where he thinks the biggest opportunities are, where he’s bearish, and what the changing makeup of the healthcare industry and adoption of value-based care mean for all stakeholders. You order-essay-online.net probably had to sit through songs by  Continue Reading »

Zebit fills an essential financial gap for over 325,000 Americans employed by TriNet clients. SAN DIEGO, Aug. 29, 2016 /PRNewswire/ — Zebit, a company committed to offering no-cost, transparent credit to hardworking Americans, launched its offering on the TriNet Marketplace, a unique shopping platform for TriNet’s more than 13,000 clients and their over 325,000 employees.[1] Zebit’s  Continue Reading »

Enterprise software company SAP is acquiring Altiscale, a startup that offers a cloud-based version of the Hadoop open source software for storing, processing, and analyzing lots of different kinds of data, VentureBeat has learned. News of the deal should be announced in the next few weeks. The deal could be valued above $125 million. The  Continue Reading »

Editor’s note: Bruce Cleveland discussed the Traction Gap in a column earlier this month. This is his second article on the topic. As I discussed earlier this month, 2016 has seen a significant drop in Series B financings. In order to successfully secure follow on rounds of funding, startups must understand how to traverse the Traction  Continue Reading »

Elizabeth Burstein, Principal at Wildcat Venture Partners and Ex-PM at Linkedin sat down with host of Yours Productly podcast, Ravi Kumar. She discussed the Traction Gap framework, her transition from PM to VC, her product philosophy and how she led one of the biggest overhaul of the Linkedin homepage. Hear the full podcast here. It bears noting  Continue Reading »

The Ascendant is an exclusive, nomination-based professional network for the most prominent and progressive senior executives at the forefront of marketing transformation. Along with hard-hitting content, what sets this conference apart is its strong focus on elevating member influence through a series of personal branding resources, one-on-one executive coaching sessions, and high-level networking opportunities. Ascendant’s  Continue Reading »

Join us as we explore the next wave of disruptive big data, advanced analytics and AI as it meets new business and engagement models, interconnected digital ecosystems, digital core systems, and regulatory challenges. But what if it was perpetually available and just a click away; Insurance Disrupted is the FIRST Conference to focus on InsurTech and the  Continue Reading »

InformationWeek named Amplero one of “10 cool Machine Learning Startups to watch”. Machine learning is technology that trains software so developers don’t have to code it by hand. The number of new companies in the category has grown exponentially over the past few years. Amplero’s predictive customer lifetime value platform, AmpIP, is designed to give marketers the  Continue Reading »

With the all new HealthTap Group Consults multiple participants, including translators, family members, and specialists can now join doctor-patient consults, expanding access to healthcare for billions everywhere PALO ALTO, Calif. –()–HealthTap, the world’s first Global Health Practice providing 24/7 immediate access to top doctors via video, text, or voice, announced today that multi participant Virtual  Continue Reading »

Venture capital’s grief might be wider than the industry thought: A Series B crunch may be upon us. And this puts more pressure on entrepreneurs to ensure that their moves into the market go with as few flaws as possible. Here, I want to focus on the Traction Gap, a critical point in the tech  Continue Reading »

Nine years ago, I did not realize that buying a hospital would lead to a massive education in everything right and wrong with the healthcare system, and eventually to building a health insurer, let alone building a software company inside of a health insurer. One of the stark realities I encountered in the hospital business  Continue Reading »